The power of dreams

The power of dreams is more than a Celine Dion song, although its lyrics deftly underscore, highlight & shout out their essential being:

Deep within each heart
There lies a magic spark
That lights the fire of our imagination
And since the dawn of man
The strength of just " I can "
Has brought together people of all nations

There's nothing ordinary
In the living of each day
There's a special part
Every one of us will play


Your mind will take you far
The rest is just pure heart
You'll find your fate is all your own creation
And every boy and girl
As they come into this world
They bring the gift of hope and inspiration


There's so much strength in all of us
Every woman, child and man
It's the moment that you think you can't
You'll discover that you can

Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
 
The world unites in hope and peace
We pray that it will always be
It is the power of the dream that brings us here

The power of the dream
The faith in things unseen
The courage to embrace your fear
No matter where you are
To reach for your own star
To realize the power of the dream
To realize the power of the dream

My innards shrivel remembering the friend who told me the other day -  "Deev, when you are old, what you dream about are your days of youth, your days gone by.  Those are their dreams."

Come on - get real!  Some scientists propose that fetuses in the last trimester have dreamlike states in the womb.  If we dream before we are born, surely we are meant to dream wonderful dreams throughout our lives, to spin them out of our hearts, weaving their intangible threads into the wondrously tangible, no longer outside our reach but within it.  

Too many of us settle in as life goes by; we settle for less rather reaching for more.  

Too many - maybe most - of us come to believe that more isn't possible, that more is a pipe dream, impossible for thirty-something, the middle aged, emphatically for the elderly.  

Too many - maybe most - of the older people I know seem to feel like my friend described, remembering years gone by rather than being 4-square where they are in any present moment, making the most of whatever their circumstances may be, knowing what they value, having a vision uniquely their own, connecting to & PURSUING creative dreams. 

My favorite part in the film, Pretty Woman, is a short bit from a passerby who says to the world at large - "What's your dream? Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin'. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'."  True for Hollywood, for Bryn Athyn & Jenkintown - for everywhere.  It's always time to dream.


True from the day we are born (or earlier) to the day we slip to whatever comes next.  But too many - maybe most - people sell themselves short.  Literally.  They shorten their dream lives to some respectable age.  It's not just the elderly who think they're too old to dream - plenty of much younger folk do, too.  Too many.

We need a dream uprising!  We need to shout from the rooftops that dreaming is meant to go on to forever & beyond the beyond.  

Without dreams we've set our heart & energies on reaching, lives designed to be in Technicolor from beginning to end regress & flatten into uninspired black & white.

Deep within each heart
There lies a magic spark
That lights the fire of our imagination

Within EACH heart, not just the young.  Everyone of us.  

Hey, what is YOUR dream?

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